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1. Land owners take action while decision pends in court

   ... the landowners in an interview lately said the court case on SABL portion 144c is progressing well. He said with the national court ... involved. The lawyer said in the essence of law, SABL 144c does not exist anymore adding appellants have to patient and are not ...

   Elizabeth1 - 17/02/2015 - 13:14

2. Logging and land alienation deliver only negative development

   ... infrastructure and better social services. When the SABL leases were issued people expected their lives to improve and to see their ... if they find work with the logging company. Overall, the SABL leases, promised agriculture projects and the logging have left the people ...

   ACTNOW - 17/08/2021 - 07:44

3. Forest Minister fails to discredit critical analysis

   ... approved logging in 785,000 hectares of land acquired under SABL Admits, cumulatively, some 11 million hectares of land have been ... taxes. Does not deny the total land area leased under SABL is over 5 million hectares. Does not deny PNG Forest Products (a ...

   ACTNOW - 20/04/2016 - 18:19 - 0 comments

4. Government must seriously address illegal logging

   ... The studies also revealed that logging expansion in SABL areas now have become the top tropical log exporter in the world, ... available  vi) Implement the recommendations of the SABL Commission of Inquiry (CoI).  ...

   ACTNOW - 21/03/2016 - 11:53 - 0 comments

5. Recent lease cancellations in PNG prompts call for action on SABLs

   ... why is it taking so long to cancel the controversial SABL leases. In 2013, a Commission of Inquiry found most of the SABLs ...

   ACTNOW - 18/09/2015 - 12:41

6. Nov 2016: Logging industry to pay more tax

   ... the people by John Numapo, one of the Commissioners in the SABL Commission of Inquiry. The government has also announced a new task ...

   ACTNOW - 17/11/2016 - 09:55 - 0 comments

7. Assessing compensation for the wrongful loss of customary land

   ACTNOW's blog The SABL land grab has once again raised the issue of compensation for rural ...

   ACTNOW - 07/06/2017 - 09:55 - 0 comments

8. New land laws premature - government must deal with corruption first

   ... and extend across both rural forest and urban areas. The SABL Commission of Inquiry highlighted how the Department of Lands has ...

   Effrey - 29/10/2014 - 17:11

9. ACT NOW! welcomes announcement of APEC forestry meeting in Port Moresby

   ... the region of our government’s terrible record on the SABL land grab and illegal logging” says ACT NOW! Campaign Coordinator, Eddie ...

   ACTNOW - 27/07/2015 - 17:42

10. National Land Summit is a Failure Say Community Groups

    ... and consent from rural traditional custodians. SABL wounds are still bleeding. We hereby condemn this ill conceived, ...

    ACTNOW - 11/03/2019 - 13:36 - 0 comments

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